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Texas Tech has sold all of its season tickets for the 2008 football season for the first time, the athletics department announced Wednesday.

Tech sold 41,372 season tickets - 1,294 more than the 2005 season, according to a Tech news release.

The athletics department will have three-game packages available that include tickets to home games against Eastern Washington, Oklahoma State and Baylor. Individual tickets remain available for every home game except Texas on Nov. 1.

LCU athletics adds two more assistants

Tiffany Williams and David De La Pena have been named as new assistant coaches to the Lubbock Christian University staff for the upcoming year.

Williams, an Amarillo native, will serve as an assistant coach/sports information assistant for the volleyball program.

De La Pena, who served as an assistant at Texas under hall of fame women's basketball coach Jody Conradt, will be a graduate assistant for the Lady Chaps basketball team.

Tech volleyball to play UNT in scrimmage

The Texas Tech volleyball team will have a preseason warmup against North Texas on Friday.

The scrimmage is open to the public and will be held in the practice gym at United Spirit Arena at 3 p.m.

Tech begins its regular season Aug. 29 in Denton at the North Texas Tournament.